An Analysis of In Memory of W.B. Yeats Friends often share stories or poems of loved one at their funeral. This helps to ease their pain and can also express accomplishments of the deceased. When W.B. Yeats passed away, one of his contemporaries, W.H. Auden, wrote a poem in memory of him. Auden’s poem entitled In Memory of W.B. Yeats, presents the life of Yeats from Auden’s perspective in …showed first 75 words of 1152 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1152 total…for a transition in Yeats’ life which perhaps he accomplished by overcoming the obstacles described. The last section of Auden’s poem is written with flowing rhyme scheme and meter and suggests a time in Yeats life where he reached the pinnacle of his art. This is also the section where Auden described the benefit of words not only to the author, but to society as well and shows the triumphant end to Yeats’ life.